How do I take care of eggs?

I just rescued these domestic goose eggs. I want to try to incubate them, but I don't have an incubator. I put them in a tin can(it's huge) and set them outside, so it can collect heat in the warm sun. But what about nightime? What should i do? How to incubate them?
Answers:
the sun is probably not enough to incubate them. you need to set up an incubator - you can probably use a normal lightglobe.

but you need to look through a search engine to see what temperatures goose eggs need, how often they need it and how often to thrun the egs, if at all.

no eggs are easy to hatch - it is best to leave them with the parents as they will probably die.
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Sit on them!

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rescued from what?

are they fertile?

have you considered putting them back with the mum?

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Maybe you should turn them over to your local zoo, they should have the equipment to care for them, and they will be properly cared for, because if you have them outside your home night animals (raccoons, possums, or skunks) might get at them.

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i'm not sure about 100% sure about night time, but you should leave them in the tin can and out them in a warm place. if i were you i would put them in my garage. it gets quite warm in there...or you can wrap them in a lot of blankets.

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I like omelets myself.

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If you placed these eggs in a can in the sun there is a high probability you already killed the eggs.Goose eggs need to be maintained at 99.5 degrees constantly.The temp can fall to 98 or climb to 101 but that is about the amount of variance they can tolerate.Also goose eggs need to be maintained in a humid atmosphere about 70%.These conditions are best met within an incubator.Being you don't have an incubator you would need to simulate one.Generally a large to medium size box can work with an adjustable light in the top.You would have to have a couple of thin bowls which can hold water to add humidity.The box would need to be closed but not taped up.The temp at the bottom of the eggs would have to reach at least 99 degrees while the top of the eggs never rises above 101.If you haven't killed the eggs already I would say you need to do something much different then a can in the sun.

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It will be very hard to incubate these eggs. You do need an egg incubator because the eggs need a certain temp and humidity to keep the embryo alive. What did you rescue them from?
The chances are the eggs are no good. And if parent birds abandon the eggs then there was a reason for it.

Did you know that eggs and very young baby birds can die at room temps?

Placing eggs inside side of the tin can will not help the eggs hatch. The tin can will not provide the type of environment that is necessary to hatch the eggs..

Sapphyre
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